Monday, October 22, 2012

My Culture - Missy from Eastern

Every
day I discover little differences and surprising similarities about Eastern
European culture. Today, I learned even more about the difference in common
foods. I was very lucky to get a care package from my church a few days ago;
along with a host of useful things, they included some homemade cookies! I
shared them with my roommates and they asked me what each kind was
called–chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, sugar–they had never tried or heard of
these! Brownies are also apparently a uniquely American treat. SO, if you
didn’t think we had culture–we do. All
my life, I have wished that I had some sort of unique or interesting heritage
to celebrate; in a culture that embraces diversity, being a plain white-bread
WASP in America has never seemed all that exciting. Most people think they have
grown up in the most normal place in the world–and before I came to Eastern
Europe, I felt this way about my home. Being here has made me realize that I do
have valuable and interesting cultural traditions (as well as some cultural
characteristics that are not that admirable…more on this later).

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